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Originally Posted by OldDog
Where?
You're entitled to your opinion, but not your facts. You referenced a link. Nowhere did they say that it had nothing due to race. Wishing it to be so, that you might make political hay of it, does not make it so.
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oh, i'm soooo sorry that i encapsulated my anger at some peoples comments in the bottom of a post about that article with the stupid comments. next time i'll post a half dozen links to articles that i've read covering the subject.
hows this:
Fox & Friends guest Reverend E. W. Jackson, a failed former candidate for Virginia Lt. Governor and an African-American defender of segregation, was quick to dismiss the significance of race. Instead, he blamed the shooting on a war against Christianity. Jackson stated:
There does seem to be a rising hostility against Christians in this country because of our biblical views…Most people jump to conclusions about race. I long for the day when we stop doing that in our country. But we don’t know why he went into a church, but he didn’t choose a bar, he didn’t choose a basketball court, he chose a church, and we need to be looking at that very closely.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum also labeled the shooting as an assault on religious liberty, not a racially-motivated assault on people of color. Santorum stated:
This is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we — you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before.
“We have no idea what’s in his mind. Maybe he hates Christian churches,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in reference to the white shooter.
South Carolina Senator and presidential candidate Lindsey Graham pointed out that it’s Christians who are the serial killer flavor of the month
while anchor Steve Doocy wondered aloud how people could “unbelievably” “call it a hate crime.”
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on Friday that "I don't know what was on the mind or the heart of the man who committed these atrocious crimes."
I just asked Jeb if the shooting was racially motivated. He said "I don't know"
"There are real people who are organized out there to kill people in religion and based on race, this guy's just whacked out," he said. "But it's 2015. There are people out there looking for Christians to kill them."
i will try to do better in future of limiting my comments only to linked articles in a particular post...i'll keep in mind that having a broader conversation is too difficult without posting links to support every sentence i write.
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if you ever actually want to discuss the actual topic, old dog, you just let me know.